In 1984, a German marketer pulled off one of the coldest betrayals in business history.

He erased the true founder of Red Bull…

...and turned a humble Thai tonic into an $80+ BILLION empire.

This is the untold story of your favorite energy drink 🧵
Dietrich Mateschitz was a marketing director in Germany.

On a trip to Bangkok, he discovered Krating Daeng — a syrupy, flat drink in brown bottles.

Minutes after drinking it, he felt sharper, more alert.

It hit him: This cheap Thai tonic solved a universal problem. Fatigue.

Trump just committed the biggest economic blunder of the decade yesterday.

He slapped 25% tariffs on India, a $4.2T ally, while giving Pakistan, a smaller, unstable country, the economy that sheltered Osama bin Laden - special treatment.

Is this genius or genuinely stupid? 🧵
India: 1.4B people, $129B in US trade, $54B in US investment.

Pakistan: 240M people, $7.3B trade, 4 military coups, ranked 174/180 on corruption.

Trump’s move?

Punish the democracy. Reward the instability.

India just co-led a $32M funding round into one startup.

You know what’s wilder?

That startup, QpiAI, was chosen to build India's $750M sovereign quantum computer.

This is a story of strategy, capital, and a new kind of industrial policy. 👇 The investment comes directly from the National Quantum Mission (NQM), launched in 2023 to make India a global quantum power.

This is not a passive research grant.

The government is actively engineering a national champion, with QpiAI at the centre of that industrial vision.

What do two DJs know about cybersecurity, infra, and AI?

Enough to raise a $100M B2B venture fund that's quietly beating most VCs at their own game.

This is how The Chainsmokers is changing the way celebrity funding works 👇 While most celebrities chase consumer hype - supplements, skincare, sneakers - The Chainsmokers chose to go the other way.

Their early-stage new-age capital fund, Mantis Ventures funds start-ups in the cybersecurity, developer infra, AI tooling, and B2B SaaS spaces.

Richest man in Asia just launched a $64 device that turns your TV into an AI-enabled cloud computer.

It is called JioPC, and it could change how 1.4 billion people access education, productivity, and the internet.

What makes it so powerful? 🧵 JioPC is not a traditional computer. It is a cloud-based virtual desktop that runs through Jio’s Set-Top Box.

When connected to a TV with a keyboard and mouse, it transforms the screen into a functioning PC environment.

No laptop or desktop is needed.

The most powerful network in tech?

Not Harvard. Not Stanford. It’s the PayPal Mafia.

20+ unicorns. $500B+ in value.

The boy band that started Tesla, SpaceX, YouTube, LinkedIn, Palantir, Yelp & more 🧵 Elon Musk:

Co‑founded → merged into PayPal

CEO: Tesla (delivered 1.8 M+ cars in 2024) and SpaceX (200+ launches).

Founded Neuralink, The Boring Co, xAI.
Net Worth: ~$350B+ (World’s richest) X.com

Donald Trump. Elon Musk. Sam Altman. Jensen Huang.
Crown Prince MBS.

No press. No leaks. One lunch.
$600 BILLION in chips, AI, and power.

This was not a handshake in Riyadh—it was the birth of a new tech empire 🧵 At the centre: “Project Transcendence”

Saudi Arabia’s $100B moonshot to become an AI superpower.

Led by “Humain” — a state-backed firm building sovereign LLMs in Arabic, AI infra, and chip clusters.

Think OpenAI + Nvidia + AWS — but funded by oil and ambition.

First, Google gave Mozilla $50M.
Then $100M.
Then $450M.

The most dangerous position in business? Being dependent on your enemy.

Mozilla made that mistake, and Google killed it.

The coldest, most strategic betrayal in tech 🧵 Flashback: 2000s

Firefox was the rebel browser. Fast, open-source, anti-Microsoft.

Millions used it. Google LOVED it.

So they paid Mozilla to make Google the default search engine.

Revenue share?
90%+ of Mozilla’s income.

🚨 AI SCAMS EXPOSED: 11 AI Fraud Cases That Shook The World

From deepfake cons to $1.7B Ponzi bots, discover how AI is being weaponized in finance:

- Fake ML pipelines
- Zero-code backtests
- SEC's AI washing fines

Number 8 is an app we both still use! 🧵 Delphia Inc. billed itself as an “AI-driven” fund using social-media sentiment and retail-spend data.

SEC probe found ZERO ML pipelines—no backtests, no model code.

Settled for $225K, admitted no automated signals.

Lesson: Always ask for code audits

🚨 Netflix didn’t just localise for India.

They REBUILT their product.
From the ground up.
For 1.4+ BILLION users.

Here’s how Netflix cracked India—and turned it into a global innovation lab 🧵 Most global companies try to "adapt" for India.

Netflix?
They engineered for India from Day 1.

- Mobile-first
- 22+ regional languages
- Works even when your net doesn’t

This is how they did it.

Skype is dead.
But it almost wasn’t born.

In the 90s, a call from NYC to Paris cost $113/hr. Then came internet calling, and telcos lost their minds.

What followed?

Lobbying wars, nerd rebellions, and a tech underdog story for the ages 🧵 In 1995, there were just 16M internet users.

But one startup saw the future.

VocalTec launched the first internet calling software — called, wait for it — i-phone.

No relation to Apple.
Telcos? Instantly threatened.